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An excerpt from Boise State Public Radio's podcast "Extremely American: Onward Christian Soldiers" about the movement to end American democracy and install a Christian theocracy.

His commitment to traditional forms, with tight patterns and taut construction, stood out among his contemporaries. He said his craft was finding order in pain and chaos — not creating it.

Born in Pittsburgh in 1859, Henry Ossawa Tanner moved to Paris, where he found "nobody knows or cares what was the complexion of my forebears." Recent conservation work explores his artistic process.

In a deeply divided America, few things bring people together across party lines. But some musicians believe they can bridge differences in ways others seem unable to.

"This Land Is Your Land" isn't just a campfire song for school kids. It's a celebration of the American landscape — but it's a celebration with an edge.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Brett McGurk, White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, about the deal with Israel and Hamas for a pause in fighting and the release of hostages.

Land acknowledgements in the form of short statements linking physical territories to displaced Indigenous people have become increasingly common in the last decade or so. Public figures routinely start off their speeches with land acknowledgements while others tack them onto email signatures. For many descendants of those displaced, the gesture can be seen as performative, and they're calling for more.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Bianca Mabute-Louie about her book Unassimilable – which argues the case against assimilation for the Asian Diaspora and re-imagines where to find community in the U.S.

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Michel Martin speaks with historians Charles Cobb and Taylor Branch about the legacy of the Act and what it accomplished.

The Swedish team transplanted uteruses from two women in their 50s to their daughters, and an Indiana group is recruiting women willing to undergo womb transplants in this country. It's the latest frontier in a field launched in 1954 with a successful kidney transplant. But one expert cautions against premature enthusiasm.